Welcome to the Developer Mentoring Guide 🎓

About

This is a community contributed guide designed to help developers help other developers. After facilitating the mentoring relationships of over 250 mentoring pairs that have come through OfferZen's Project Thrive mentoring programme, we've learned a lot about what it takes to ensure the success of a mentoring relationship.

The goal of this guide is to help those that want to:

Be better at mentoring other developers
Be better at being mentored and able to make the most of that opportunity
(In future) Implement mentoring programmes within their workplaces

The idea is that this guide is put to use and tested by each OfferZen Thrive monthly cohort of mentors and mentees, and that each cohort can help make it better and more comprehensive for following cohorts.

How you can help

The team behind this have never managed an open-source repo before, so we need all the help we can get! 🙏

❓ Submit any mentoring questions you have

Can't find what you're searching for in the guide? Submit any questions you have about mentoring here. You can also log an issue on the repo.

💻 Make a contribution on GitHub

Want to add contribution guidelines? Want to include website functionality that you think is missing? Think you can help us with one of the logged issues? Go for it!

💬 Start a discussion

Want to chat to others about this guide or start a conversation on a specific topic? Great!

📚 Contribute resources you've used in your mentoring relationship

Used any additional resources or templates during your mentoring relationship that you found useful? Go ahead and add them to the Community Resources folder.

Pro-tip 💡 If you're looking for the guide's markdown pages, check out the docs folder.

How this repo currently works/was set up

This is a copy of the docusaurus.io getting started template. You'll see that the code hasn't been cleaned up yet.
@suitophobia is the owner of a Vercel project that builds this repo to www.developermentoring.guide.

Getting started with the repo

In order to make a contribution, fork or branch the repo and request merges in. Consider dockerising the development to avoid conflicts with the contributor's local system.

npm install
npm run build